Mom's Surgery

To all of those that have been praying for my mom, thanks. She had her surgery on the 20th and according to the plastic surgeon it went well. The cancer on her eyelid was worse than they anticpiated, so they has to do 2 kinds of grafts-- one from behind her ear and the other from her upper eyelid's inner skin. she is understandably frustrated with not being able to see, and not being able to work and from the pain. Just think, if you had something in your eye, or your contact was lost in your eye how annoying that would be-- she has a bunch of stitches and a bandage sewn into her top and lower eyelid until next Thursday.

After that she goes back and gets the bandage off, but the grafts are still growing for a month and then she will have another small surgery to correct the crease of her eye and that sort of thing. Obviosuly I can't see her stitches under the bandage, but behind her ear where they did the graft looks amazing! Such tiny stitches-- for my knee surgery they were Huge! But I guess that is the difference between a plastic surgeon and someone checking for cancer. Also they were so sure I had it that I think that they just assumed they'd be cutting more of me away soon after. (Yay for enlarged muscle tissue instead of malignant cells!)

My mom would still really appreciate your prayers. But she is one hoss tough woman. Today she decided that she needed to go into work to do a certain project that no one else knows how to do. She called to say that dad is picking her up soon (I'm at the library just in case she needed to call me to get her) but she just is so determined to not let this ruin tax season.